Tina Makereti’s (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti RangatahiMatakore, Pākehā) highly anticipated first work of non-fiction This Compulsion in Us blends essays about her craft and compulsion to write with reflective memoir recounting her unconventional upbringing and the many tīpuna who guide her.

In her Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlisted essay collection Bad Archive Flora Feltham mines her memory as she attempts to “keep the scraps of the past from the bin of today”. A pressed flower found in the diary of a 19th-century teenager nor the Newtown New World of her childhood escape her delicately executed project of personal archiving.

With Jenna Todd (Kāi Tahu) they discuss their collections and reflect on how they use the form to uncover personal histories and reckon with the fallibility of memory.